hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

William Dode wilk at flibuste.net
Thu Feb 12 03:11:25 CST 2009


On 11-02-2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:45:54AM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Romain Pelisse <belaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > IMO, I definitly understand the needs to move convert hgbook to DocBook,
>> > but it sounds to me less important than actually "feeding" the book (which
>> > is already big, but i'm pretty sure there still margin for improvements).
>> 
>> Doing the conversion is a prerequisite to further work on the book, because
>> recent versions of tex4ht are even more thoroughly broken than before, and I
>> have been unable to publish revisions for months due to tex4ht outputting
>> garbage.
>
> Not that I have any practical experience with it so far,
> but anyway +1 to Marcin's reStructuredText suggestion. It certainly

+1 also to reST and we even don't need html or pdf format to read it on 
console :-)

I don't think it will be too difficult to convert the actual source to 
reST (i will participate). But we should do this before translation...


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